http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090624/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will launch a series of missiles in the coming days.

Off China’s coast, a U.S. destroyer was tailing a North Korean ship suspected of transporting illicit weapons to Myanmar in what could be the first test of U.N. sanctions pbumed to punish the nation for an underground nuclear test last month.

The Kang Nam left the North Korean port of Nampo a week ago with the USS John S. McCain close behind. The ship, accused of transporting banned goods in the past, is believed bound for Myanmar, according to South Korean and U.S. officials.

The new U.N. Security Council resolution requires member states to seek permission to inspect suspicious cargo. North Korea has said it would consider interception a declaration of war and on Wednesday accused the U.S. of seeking to provoke another Korean War.

“If the U.S. imperialists start another war, the army and people of Korea will … wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for all,” the official Korean Central News Agency said.

The warning came on the eve of the 59th anniversary of the start of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953, not a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula in state of war.

The U.S. has 28,500 troops in South Korea to protect against an outbreak of hostilities.

Tensions have been high since North Korea launched a long-range rocket in April and then conducted its second underground atomic test on May 25.

Reacting to U.N. condemnation of that test, North Korea walked away from nuclear disarmament talks and warned it would fire a long-range missile.

North Korea has banned ships from the waters off its east coast starting Thursday through July 10 for military exercises, Japan’s Coast Guard said.

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday that the North may fire a Scud missile with a range of up to 310 miles (500 kilometers) or a short-range ground-to-ship missile with a range of 100 miles (160 kilometers) during the no-sail period.

A senior South Korean government official said the no-sail ban is believed connected to North Korean plans to fire short- or mid-range missiles. He spoke on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.

U.S. defense and counterproliferation officials in Washington said they also expected the North to launch short- to medium-range missiles. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.

South Korea will expedite the introduction of high-tech unmanned aerial surveillance systems and “bunker-buster” bombs in response to North Korea’s provocations, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper said, citing unidentified ruling party members.

Meanwhile, a flurry of diplomatic efforts were under way to try getting North Korea to return to disarmament talks.

Russia’s top nuclear envoy, Alexei Borodavkin, said after meeting with his South Korean counterpart that Moscow is open to other formats for discussion since Pyongyang has pulled out of formal six-nation negotiations.

In Beijing, top U.S. and Chinese defense officials also discussed North Korea. U.S. Defense Undersecretary Michele Flournoy was heading next to Tokyo and Seoul for talks.

South Korea has proposed high-level “consultations” to discuss North Korea with the U.S., Russia, China and Japan.

First, LOL @ North Korea. Keep poking the giant? Second, the more I hear about these NK bumclowns, the more patriotic I feel and the more I want their bum to be kicked. USA! USA!

“Unites States off the map”

omg this is the best thing i’ve read since cannon sensei

man-man Posted:

If they launch a missile at the US they’ll be fused into a puddle of molten glbum before the thing gets off the ground… there is just no way for them to ever conceivably win such a fight.

Lol, the U.S. will try their darndest to get in a nuclear war, though. Even if they shot such **** at us, I don’t think we’d do the same, except perhaps tactical.

**** ‘em. I want to watch the world burn.

Shii Posted:

Except currently it’s North Korea vs. the world.

That’s not going to end in anything but all of North Korea being dead.

Honestly, it’s just puffery. While they’re stupid, they’re not THAT stupid. We have nearly 30,000 troops over there anyway, and there are so many nations poised to just demolish them. They don’t have a chance.

ya but nukes going anywhere are bad news.

North Korea’s been talking big for years and years. They’re the little toddler in time out who thinks he’s so clever hiding some playdough in his pants.

That playdough dried out. He can’t do **** with it.

If they do launch rockets at anyone not on the Asian mainland, they’re going to be duds or fall into the ocean instead.

TUBSWEETIE Posted:

i hope there isn’t a nuclear war. i’d rather not have the entire world be dead

not for a while anyway

Made me think of this.

well they say that they wanna wipe us off the planet… but they’re using scud missles? 310 mile range…. uh…. im no expert but i do beleive they’re a little farther away than 310 mi. LOL those dumb bastards make me laugh!

Seems like we haven’t learned our lesson… We just see one dictator talking bull**** and we’re ready to throw ourselves into another war we can’t afford.

It would be easy for us to invade NK, capture Lil Kim, put him on trial and hang him, but how would that make us any safer?